What good does it do me to live in the city
If happiness does not accompany me
Goodbye, little girl from my heart
Back to my backlands, I want to return
To see the dawns, when the birds
Making dawn, start to sing
With satisfaction, I saddle the donkey
Cutting the road, I start to gallop
And I go listening to the cattle bellowing
Sabia singing in the jequitibá

By Our Lady
My beloved backlands
I live regretting having left
This new life here in the city
From so much longing, I have cried
Here there is someone, says
That they love me
But it does not suit me
I have thought
I feel sorry, but this brunette
Does not know the system I was raised in
I'm here singing, listening from afar
Someone is crying
With the radio on

What immense longing for
Field and bush
Of the gentle stream that
Cuts the meadows
On Sundays I used to go canoeing
In the beautiful lagoons of crystal clear waters
What a sweet memory
Of those parties
Where there were dances and beautiful girls
I live today without joy
The world hurts, but it also teaches
I am upset, but not defeated
I am well guided by the
Divine hands

For my little mother I have already telegraphed
And I'm tired of suffering so much
This dawn I will be leaving
For the beloved land that saw me born
I already hear dreaming the rooster singing
The nhambu chirping at dusk
The silver moon lighting the road
The wet grass since nightfall
I need to go to see everything there
It was there that I was born, there I want to die

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